re: #96 dragonfire1981

If you transpose what they the outstanding credit card balance into a different term - let’s say - mortgage, those numbers take on a slightly different connotation. Yes, there’s budget problems, but a good part of that debt is due to housekeeping - the actual nuts and bolts of maintaining the nation, whether it’s national defense and costs associated, or infrastructure, etc.

Not exactly frivolous costs that can be pared down.